The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-30
Pith and Point.

GEORGIA critique on homey bride.
Her face would wean calf"
THE most unkind cut Of all is TO be
found in the average eight-dollar suit of
clothes.-Puck.
IT is lucky to have your nest well feathered
when you see the bills stick out of your
pigeOn-holes.-Tid-B Bits.
THE Los Angeles Herad claims that by
actual count there are Jos houses in course
of construction in that town.
THE waves Of old ocean are by no means
ready to sleep when they put their white
caps on.-Ne,o Orleans Picdytne
AMONG all the series of Books That
Have Helped Me- a contributor to Lie
says, the best is the pocket-book.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has selected Brook
Ign, n. Y. as his place of residence when
he retires from the White House in 1889.
A CORRESPONDENT of a country paper
wants to know how to tell bad egg TRY
to eat it and you will find out at once-BoS-
ton Post
A WARRANT was recently issued in North
Carolina town for the arrest of man for
committing an assault "with deadly
weapon, to wit: certain vicious and large
bulldog"
BILL NYE once in awhile gets off a clever
thing, as when he says that he named his
dog Entomologist because an entomologist
is one who makes large and rare collections
of insects.
A ROOSTER that strums on the piano is
exciting the people of Salem, H." There
Is one thing to be said in favor of such
piano-player: the rooster goes to bed at
sundown.-Norristown Heraid.
LONDON paper. speaks of health re-
sorts for horses Localities where MEM
bers of the first equine families are sent for
change of air" Would it be proper to
call such resorts 90 horsepitas?" -N0rTisto1cn
Herdld.
LADY: And so you left your situation
through having words with your mistress"
adzactly what you might call words, IN. |
on'y. spoke to 'er as one lady might to
another"
ONE of the hotels of Moscow has large
fountain stocked with fish in the center of
the dining-room, from which, when he re-
ceives an order the waiter catches one alive
with dip-net The guest is therefore sure
of its freshness.
REPORTER, in describing the murder OF
man named Jorkins, said: "The MUIR
derer was evidently in quest of money, but
luckily Mr.. Jorkins had deposited all his
funds in the bank the day before, so he lost
nothing but his life" =
THE National Butter Egg and Cheese As
sociation is strongly in favor of having eggs
sold by the pound instead of by the dozen.
There is no more reason why eggs should
be sold by the dozen than there would be in
selling cattle in that way
You cannot always tell what peonle
mean by what they say; but when the bot
tom comes out of the ash-barrel that man
is tugging and straining to get up the cellar
steps and the man says something it is safe
! to assume as a general thing that he means
it. S0merrWe Journdl.
EVERY married woman gets so accustomed
to being accused of mislaying any article
that her husband cannot Immediately nut
his hand on that she would not be sur
prised, should the house be annihilated by
cyclone, to hear him ask, " What have you
done with it?'- Boston Journal of EdUcdtion
PROGRESSIVE OBSERVATION is the name of
new game which has become popular in
Boston The players are shown a large
number Of articles of all kinds on tray. In
about half minute the tray is taken away,
and the person who is most successful in
naming the articles on the tray scores a
point.
PHOTOGRAPHS can be purchased in the
streets of Berlin or New York showing four
! living generations of the house of Hohen-
zollern. Between the aged emperor and
his greatgrandson in the nursery stand the
son and the grandson. With so many links
in the chain of succession the stability of
German monarc by would seem to be placed
beyond dispute
Why" spake the fearful guest at the
Pighatchahashett House, down in Maine,
why do you have that picture of Jessie
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dining-room door" % Because" replied the
smiling host she it was who said to the
starving soldiers; Dinner! you hear the
slogan " The giddy guest gave one
CHASTITY gasp and got;-Burdete.
ENGLISH religious papers are again pro-
testing against the overdecoration of
churches at harvest home festivals. At a
recent festival in Lancashire church the
sacred edifce was about filled with sacks of
potatoes and great quantities of beets, tur-
Inips, carrots, apples, pears, tomatoes and
huge vegetable marrows Altogether it
looked more like green-grocer's shop than
a church.
In SileSia recently a man was summoned
before the magistrate for disturbing the
slumbers of citizen. The noise which
broke his slumbers was Growing cockerel.
The wise magistrate decided that the man
had right to keep his cockerel, that
cockerel could not live without growing,
and the complainant was challenged to pro-
duce cockerel which did not crow. The
case was dismissed.
JENNIE GIBSON a handsome girl of six
teen, living with her parents at Arkwright
\. Y, has never seen the world by daylight,
though enabled by lamplight to sew and
read Just as plainly as anybody. Up to the
age of four or five years she was believed to
be totally blind. The parents noticed that
after the lamp was lighted she gave evidence
of seeing; and gradually this power of sight
grew upon her until Nhe little one played
win her dolls and toys by artificial light as
eagerly as other children by daylight
SOME years ago, as a punishment for GER
tain political offences, a Tibetan lama was
informed by the emperor of China that after
his death his soul would not be permitted
to revisit this world. But on the lama's
death recently his pupils besought the en-
peror to withdraw his nterdiCt. Yielding
TO their solicitations, the soul has been al
lowed to reappear in the person of a baby.
The Manchu residents of Tibet now appeal
on behalf of this infant for the restitution
of all the deceased saints posthumous
honors.
BARNUM has lost about 81 100000 by fire
in his life, His residence, "Iranstan," at
Bridgeport, was burned on December Is,
1897. 1t cost about Sl50,000. On July Is,
1868, the American Museum, standing at
Broadway and Ann streets where the old
Herdd building used to be, burned to the
ground. Barnum's Museum, near the old
ST. Nicholas Hotel, was destroyed on March
3, 1857; the amphitheater in Fourteenth
street, on December "a, 1871, and the other
night the main building at the winter
quarters.
AN old gentleman of Detroit was passing
through the ceremony of taking his fourth
wife the other day. At the impressive
climax of the good preacher-man's part in
the performance somebody was heard sob
bling in an adjoining room. Ny good
ness" exclaimed one of the guests in a